Aloe catengiana
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Aloe catengiana is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet catengiana refers to the occurrence of the species near Catengue in Angola.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe catengiana grows trunk-forming, branched and forms thickets with a diameter of 1 to 2 meters or more. The ascending, spreading or prostrate trunk is 1.5 to 2 meters long. If it is supported by the surrounding vegetation, it can be up to 3 meters long. The 16 to 20 lanceolate, pointed leaves are scattered along the trunk over 30 centimeters. The light yellowish green leaf blade is 30 centimeters long and 3 to 5 centimeters wide. On it there are very bright green lenticular spots, which are more common in the lower half. The firm, reddish brown pointed teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and 8 to 10 millimeters apart. Your lined leaf sheaths have a length of 15 to 20 millimeters.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of about six branches and reaches a length of 40 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are up to 16 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide. On side branches they consist of almost one-sided flowers. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The cloudy, scarlet flowers are on 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Above that they are very slightly narrowed and finally widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 1 to 2 millimeters from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe catengiana is widespread in the south-west of Angola and in the north of Namibia in the hot, dry bush at heights of about 518 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1961.
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literature
- Susan Carter , John J. Lavranos , Leonard E. Newton , Colin C. Walker : Aloes. The definitive guide . Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-439-7 , pp. 634 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe catengiana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 123 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 42.
- ↑ Kirkia . Volume 1, 1961, p. 160.